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Tomorrow is the day. After months of debates, doorsteps, and drama,
Croydon goes to the polls on Thursday 7 May. Tonight is your last chance to make up your mind. We’ve got everything you need to walk into that polling station with confidence.
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🗓️ Upcoming Events
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🎵 Fairfield Halls - Croydon Symphonic Band, 53rd annual summer concert. Check fairfield.co.uk for dates
🎭 Stanley Arts - Mini Movers & Their Grown-up Groovers, Sunday 17 May, 11am. £6 per child
🎨 Click Clock Art Gallery - The Croydonist Turns Ten. Free. 5–29 May, Mon–Sat 9am
🤼 Fairfield Halls - LDN Wrestling June Showdown. Family-friendly. Tickets at fairfield.co.uk
🛍️ This Saturday
The Kiosk - open 9am to 2pm The Kiosk Linktree
📰 MORNING PULSE
THE RACE: TOO CLOSE TO CALL
The latest polling puts Labour’s Rowenna Davis and Conservative incumbent Jason Perry within fewer than 100 votes of each other - the tightest mayoral race Croydon has ever seen
Reform UK’s Ben Flook is polling at 20%, just 3 points behind Labour. With the Green Party at 17% and Lib Dems at 14%, this is a genuinely five-way contest. The winner could take the Town Hall with as little as 23-25% of the vote. Every single vote counts tomorrow. Source: Inside Croydon / JLPartners MRP
LABOUR’S SELECTION ROW RUMBLES ON
Six sitting Labour councillors were blocked from standing in Thursday’s elections - five women, four of them Black. Among those deselected: Karen Jewitt, who served Thornton Heath for 32 years
The controversy has dogged Labour’s campaign in its final days, with critics questioning whether the process was fair and transparent. Source: Inside Croydon
£17.5M ROADS INVESTMENT - WHOEVER WINS, CROYDON’S STREETS GET FIXED
Croydon Council has committed £17.5m to highways improvements in 2026/27 - roads, footways, bridges and flood management across the borough. A rare piece of cross-party good news heading into election day. Source: Croydon Council Newsroom
THE CROYDONIST TURNS TEN
A free exhibition celebrating a decade of the Croydonist opens this week at the Click Clock Art Gallery, Clocktower Café. Running 5–29 May, Monday to Saturday, 9am onwards. Free entry. A lovely reminder of what makes this borough worth fighting for. Source: Croydon BID
💛 HEARTBEAT
🗳️ YOUR VOTE, YOUR BOROUGH
🕐Polls open 7am–10pm, Thursday 7 May
🆔 Bring photo ID (passport, driving licence, or free Voter Authority Certificate)
♿Polling stations are wheelchair accessible
👁️The McGonagle Reader audio-tactile voting device is available for blind/partially sighted voters - contact Electoral Services in advance
📍Not sure where your polling station is? Check at gov.uk/find-polling-station
🗳️ELECTION EVE - THE CANDIDATES AT A GLANCE
🔵 Jason Perry (Conservative) - Incumbent Mayor, 4 years in office. Croydon Education Partnership, highways investment, fiscal recovery
🔴 Rowenna Davis (Labour) - Former teacher. Schools, SEND, housing, community focus
🟢 Peter Underwood (Green Party) - Environment, rewilding, sustainable transport
🟡 Richard Howard (Liberal Democrats) - Local accountability, community services
🟠 Ben Flook (Reform UK) - National issues, anti-establishment vote
⚪ Michael Pusey (Taking The Initiative Party)
⚪ Jose Joseph (Independent)
Polls close Thursday 7 May at 10pm. 🆔 Bring photo ID.
🏆 ONLY IN CROYDON
Croydon has been the testing ground for two historic firsts in the same election week: the Met Police’s live facial recognition pilot (scanning up to 5,000 faces per hour) AND the UK’s first deployment of the McGonagle Reader audio-tactile voting device. Surveillance and accessibility - only in Croydon.
The Croydon mayoral race could be decided by fewer votes than the capacity of a double-decker bus. In a borough of 400,000 people. Go vote.
🗽 This is it, Croydon. Tomorrow morning, set your alarm, grab your photo ID, and go make your mark.
Whatever happens on Thursday - the count on Friday and Saturday will be one for the history books. We’ll be here with the full results breakdown.
Share it with a neighbour, drop it in your street WhatsApp, or forward it to someone still making up their mind. 🗳️
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